Ozothamnus

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Ozothamnus
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Ozothamnus diosmifolius
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Gnaphalieae
Genus: Ozothamnus
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Species

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Ozothamnus is a genus of plants found in Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia.

The following is a list of species' names accepted by the Australian Plant Census as at January 2020: [1]

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<i>Ozothamnus ferrugineus</i>

Ozothamnus ferrugineus, commonly known as tree everlasting, is a member of the genus Ozothamnus, of the Asteraceae family - one of the largest families of flowering plants in Australia. Native to the Australian states of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania, it forms an erect shrub or small tree between 2 and 3 metres in height.

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<i>Ozothamnus obcordatus</i> Species of shrub

Ozothamnus obcordatus, the grey everlasting, is a shrub in the family Asteraceae, native to the states of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania in Australia.

<i>Ozothamnus hookeri</i> Species of shrub

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<i>Ozothamnus cupressoides</i> Species of shrub

Ozothamnus cupressoides is an aromatic shrub species, endemic to Australia. Common names include scaly everlasting, lattice everlasting or kerosene bush. It grows to between 0.5 and 1 metre in height and has white-tomentose branchlets. The scale-like leaves are 1 to 3 mm long and 0.5 to 1 mm wide. These are green on the upper surface, and white tomentose below. The flower heads appear in dense clusters in summer and autumn The species occurs in boggy sites and subalpine heathland in New South Wales and Victoria. It was first formally described in 2010 in the journal Muelleria.

<i>Ozothamnus lepidophyllus</i> Species of plant

Ozothamnus lepidophyllus is a shrub in the family Asteraceae, native to Western Australia. It is erect, growing from 0.25 to 0.6 m high with white flowers and grows on loamy, sandy and rocky soils.

<i>Ozothamnus alpinus</i> Species of shrub

Ozothamnus alpinus, commonly known as alpine everlasting, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is endemic to alpine and subalpine areas in south-eastern continental Australia.

<i>Ozothamnus cuneifolius</i> Species of shrub

Ozothamnus cuneifolius, commonly known as wedge-leaf everlasting or wedge everlasting, is a shrub in the family Asteraceae. It is native to forests of the south-east of New South Wales and Gippsland in Victoria in Australia.

<i>Ozothamnus rogersianus</i> Species of shrub

Ozothamnus rogersianus, commonly known as Nunniong everlasting, is a shrub in the family Asteraceae. It is endemic to Victoria, Australia.

<i>Ozothamnus ledifolius</i> Species of shrub

Ozothamnus ledifolius is a shrub, from the family Asteraceae and one of 54 species from the genus Ozothamnus. Harold Frederick Comber (1897–1969), an English horticulturist and plant collector, introduced Ozothamnus ledifolius in 1929 on mountains of Tasmania above 2500 ft. high from the seeds collected from 4000 ft. height.

<i>Ozothamnus occidentalis</i> Species of plant

Ozothamnus occidentalis is a shrub in the family Asteraceae, native to Western Australia.

Ozothamnus tesselatus, commonly known as tesselate everlasting, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is a small shrub with woolly branches and globular heads of whitish to straw-coloured flowers.

<i>Ozothamnus rodwayi</i> Plant species, Tasmanian

Ozothamnus rodwayi, commonly known as alpine everlastingbush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae that is endemic to Tasmania, Australia. Its is a widespread small, dense alpine shrub abundantly found in alpine and high subalpine heaths and woodlands.

References

  1. "Ozothamnus". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra. Retrieved 2020-01-23.